Derwent Pastel Pencils

Derwent Pastel Pencils offer all the expressive qualities of hard pastels in the convenience of a pencil form. These professional-quality pencils are ideal for use as an individual medium or for detailing in combination with pastel work.

Derwent Pastel Pencils have been specially developed to provide only the highest degree of purity and lightfastness. Their soft powdery texture provides a smooth velvet finish.

Derwent offers the artist the traditional qualities of conventional pastels without the drawbacks. Pencils are pre-sharpened.

Color Chart note — Use this color chart as an approximation of the real color. If exact color matching is necessary, use actual samples of the materials.

Shipping Note — Due to manufacturer distribution restrictions, Derwent products cannot be shipped to addresses outside of North America.

I thin with 25% (1 part water 3 parts product) for a regular coat on a finished acrylic piece. If poured on, creates a very glossy thick surface almost like glass over a surface, but not very even. This is really nice stuff to fluff up the elegance of a luscious piece.

I love soft pastels, however, they are not the best choice when working outdoors - I can get pretty dirty head to toe!For sketching and doing small pieces, I love these pencils. They are not so soft that the "lead" breaks every time they are sharpened, but the texture is soft enough to blend and overlay, yet still build up an 'impasto' texture if you want one. I am able to build them up without closing the tooth of the paper. The colors range from soft lights, to strong darks and are very mixable. I would love a 'specially - made' sharpener specifically for these pencils, as some just do not work well.On my wish list is a lightweight case with every color Derwent makes.....

I use these white lead pencils for marking on walnut or other dark wood I use for the instruments I build The white line shows up much better than a regular pencil. Blick's clearly had the best deal on these.

I am a nature artist and I do a lot of fine detail in my work. I have tried other pastel pencils and the Derwent brand is now the only one I will use. The colors are lovely and the softness and texture match my stick pastels perfectly. My only wish is that Derwent would create an electric sharpener for them so that I didnt have to sit around whittling the pencil tips with a pocket knife.

Very happy with the Derwent pastel pencils. They allow me to add the details when I need them, and are portable enough to go anywhere to get things started in the field. They blend well, and are soft enough to cover when needed.The only thing I dislike is trying to sharpen them and keep the point in the pencil.

I utilize these pencils just as I would any other colored pencil product and couldn't be thankful enough to find them. They have a very fine pastel dust that infiltrates the smallest of peaks within my favorite drawing surface, making them superb for skin tones and slight variations in color.

Since Derwent has reformulated these pencils, they work FLAWLESSLY! I had previously purchased some and ended up returning them because I was disappointed with the fact that I couldn't sharpen them without them breaking and that they scratched the paper frequently. I was sad to let them go because I loved the color selection.

I decided to give Derwent another shot after I heard that they reformulated these bad boys and boy am I glad I did! The color goes down smoothly, does not scratch the paper, and I can even sharpen them without a problem using a standard hand sharpener (something I could not do before)!

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